| Kasun Hewage |
UBC Okanagan |
Lifecycle assessment of construction products and processes; Waste management in construction; Energy based sustainability analysis in infrastructure projects; Construction productivity and safety; Human factors and information technology in construction; Construction process optimization. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil); UBC Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Life Cycle Management Laboratory; Battery Innovation Research Excellence Cluster |
Waste and Waste Management, Buildings and Sustainable Infrastructure Design, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Policy and Governance |
| Nina Hewitt |
UBC Vancouver |
Biogeography; Vegetation dynamics with a focus on the impacts of human activities, particularly ecosystem fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, biological invasions and climate change, and the solutions to manage these impacts; Plant populations in forest ecosystems of eastern North America, and in alpine and subalpine systems of the Karakoram Himalaya and BC Coast Mountains. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Geography; Biogeography Teaching and Research Lab |
Biodiversity, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Land Use, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Andrea Hilland |
UBC Vancouver |
Intersections of Indigenous laws, Aboriginal rights, and environmental regulation to challenge discriminatory theories of colonial supremacy and Indigenous inferiority that are perpetuated through the contemporary colonial legal system; Supporting the resurgence of Indigenous laws; Demonstrating the potential of Indigenous laws to enhance Canada's multi-juridical legal system. |
Peter A. Allard School of Law |
Centre for Law and the Environment; Centre for Feminist Legal Studies; Indigenous Legal Studies |
Environmental Law, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Indigenous Ways of Knowing |
| Scott Hinch |
UBC Vancouver |
Salmon migration behavioural physiology and ecology; Land-use effects on fish ecology and habitat; Adult salmon migration survival, behaviour, energetics, physiology, habitat use, environmental cues, effects of fisheries and capture-release, passage in regulated rivers, disease and pathogens. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences; Pacific Salmon Ecology and Conservation Laboratory; Strait of Georgia Data Centre; UBC Animal Research |
Freshwater Systems, Fisheries, Forestry, Land Use, Natural Resource Management |
| George Hoberg |
UBC Vancouver |
Forest policy; Energy policy; Environmental policy; Trade and environment; Softwood lumber; Olympics; Aboriginal issues (land rights), Forestry policy. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Political Science; School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability |
Policy and Governance, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Forestry, Pollution, Climate Activism and Social Movements |
| Karen Hodges |
UBC Okanagan |
Ecology; Conservation biology; Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on behaviour and population dynamics; Predator-prey dynamics; Extinction risks; Species-at-risk legislation; Wildfires and wildlife; Biosolids and wildlife. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Biology; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES); Biodiversity Research Centre |
Biodiversity, Wildfires and Forest Fires, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Land Use, Policy and Governance, Waste and Waste Management |
| Maria Holuszko |
UBC Vancouver |
Recovery of metals from industrial and municipal waste streams; Urban mining; Biomass waste from forestry and tailings from coal mining to produce new bio-renewable fuel for the power industry. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Future Minerals Initiative; Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining; Urban Mining Innovation Center; Microplastic Cluster; Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering |
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| Michael Hooper |
UBC Vancouver |
Comparative politics; Climate migration; Densification; Disasters and natural hazards; Displacement; Participatory planning; Urban planning and policy; Urban spatial transformation: Displacement, disasters and densification. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Community and Regional Planning; Centre for Migration Studies; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response, Urban Planning and Cities, Policy and Governance, Housing |
| Kristen Hopewell |
UBC Vancouver |
International trade; Global governance; Industrial policy and development; Emerging powers; Global powers; WTO; International political economy. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs |
Policy and Governance, International Negotiations and Treaties, Agriculture, Poverty, Climate Finance and Investment |
| Ed Hornibrook |
UBC Okanagan |
Biogeochemistry; Stable isotopes; Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases; Natural and restored wetlands; Lakes; Soil; Groundwater; Trace gas analysis; Automation of monitoring equipment. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences |
Atmospheric Science, Carbon Cycle, Freshwater Systems, Forestry |
| Isabella Huberman |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous literature and cinema of Quebec; Hydroelectric development and resource extraction; Environmental humanities; Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial thought; Arctic Indigenous studies; Francophone Indigenous narrative arts; Colonial archives and archival methodology; Film studies and visual analysis; Extractivism and environmental justice; Indigenous storytelling and oral traditions; Quebec-Indigenous relations; Anticolonial theory. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies |
Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Environmental Psychology, Climate Justice |
| Kurt Hübner |
UBC Vancouver |
Sustainability and innovation policies; Politics and economics of European integration as well as on contradictions and complementarities of sustainability and international competitiveness. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Political Science |
International Negotiations and Treaties, Policy and Governance, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis |
| Emily Huddart Kennedy |
UBC Vancouver |
Human-environmental relationships; What motivates civic engagement in efforts to protect the environment?; How do pro-environmental practices reflect and reproduce social differences?; Household-level sustainable consumption; Alternative food initiatives; Gender, politics and social class in Environmentalism. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Sociology; Centre for Climate Justice; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems |
Environmental Psychology, Policy and Governance, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Climate Activism and Social Movements |
| Zachary Hudson |
UBC Vancouver |
Development of new materials to address issues of sustainability in chemistry and materials science; Synthesis of organic and organometallic materials directed towards applications in sensing, printed electronics, and efficient solid-state lighting. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Chemistry; Bioproducts Institute; Hudson Research Group |
Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Brian Hunt |
UBC Vancouver |
Biological oceanography; Structure and function of pelagic marine ecosystems and their response to climate forcing and anthropogenic impacts; Plankton dynamics; Response of lower trophic levels to bottom-up forcing by climatic and oceanographic conditions, and the implications of this response for mid-trophic levels; Antarctic; Tropical South Pacific; New Zealand; Mediterranean; North Pacific and Arctic. |
Faculty of Science |
Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Pelagic Ecosystems Laboratory; Biodiversity Research Centre |
Oceans and Coastal Systems, Fisheries, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic |
| Dallas Hunt |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous-led climate action and planning; Climate justice; Indigenous literatures; Indigenous theory & politics; Canadian literature; Speculative fiction; Settler colonial studies; Environmental justice. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of English Language and Literatures; Centre for Climate Justice |
Climate Justice, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Kshamta Hunter |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate education; Sustainability curriculum and pedagogy; Sustainable development goals; Transformative learning. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy |
Climate Activism and Social Movements, Climate Justice, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Alessandro Ielpi |
UBC Okanagan |
Earth and planetary geomorphology; Watersheds, rivers, and floodplains; Basin analysis; Fluvial biogeochemistry. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences |
Freshwater Systems, Paleoclimate, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| John Innes |
UBC Vancouver |
Plants and forests; Climate changes and Impacts; Forest management; Communities and Indigenous knowledge; Sustainable forest management. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Sustainable Forest Management Group; Forest Carbon Research Lab |
Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Indigenous Relationships and Reconciliation, Business Processes and Corporate Governance |
| Darren Irwin |
UBC Vancouver |
How new species arise, how geographical variation within species is produced, and how behaviors evolve; Hybrid zones and their role in speciation; Genomic “islands of differentiation”; Cytonuclear discordance; Ring species; Migratory behaviour; Cryptic species. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Irwin Lab; Biodiversity Research Centre |
Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| Tara Ivanochko |
UBC Vancouver |
Embedding open source computational tools into earth science courses; Climate studies and action certificate; Community engaged experiential learning; Educational portfolios; Advancing sustainability education in EOAS, Faculty of Science and UBC. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Sustainability Hub; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Sara Jacobs |
UBC Vancouver |
Reinterpreting landscape through histories of environment, care; Infrastructures of race and coloniality; Politics and possibilities of care; Histories of racialization within landscape practice; Environmental histories of soil, contamination, and carceral labour; Climate crisis at the overlaps of water, land, and collective memory. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Urban Planning and Cities |
| Kedrick James |
UBC Vancouver |
Adolescent literacy; Arts based education; Canadian poetry and poetics; Critical literacies & critical pedagogies; Data visualization and sonification; Digital literacy; Digital research methods; Discourse analysis; Eco-poetics, Environmental literacy; Language and literacy teacher education; Language assessment; Literary studies; Multimodality; Online learning; Orality and literacy; Poetic inquiry; Remix; Research methodologies; Technology & language education. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Language and Literacy Education; Research-Based Theatre Collaborative |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Jill Jankowski |
UBC Vancouver |
The study of patterns of species diversity and distributions in heterogeneous landscapes, and how those patterns are influenced by physiological, ecological and evolutionary forces. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology; Biodiversity Research Centre; Jankowski Lab |
Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic |
| John Janmaat |
UBC Okanagan |
Environmental and resource economics, with an emphasis on the role of environmental services; Knowledge mobilization and sustainability policy; Environmental economics; Natural resource economics. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science; Future Waters Group; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES); Cluster of Research Excellence in Living with Wildfire in the BC Southern Interior |
Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Policy and Governance, Livelihoods and Traditional Economies, Land Use |
| Juri Jatskevich |
UBC Vancouver |
Power and energy systems; Smart energy grids; Power electronic systems and converter circuits; Electrical machines and drives; Controls; Electromagnetic transients; Computer modeling and simulation; Distributed and parallel simulation. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems; Marine Systems Research Cluster; Power Group; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Electricity, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions |
| Mark Jellinek |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate change's effects on plate tectonics; Undersea eruptions and black smoker vents influence on the chemistry and biodiversity of the deep ocean; Climatic footprint of a super continental cycle; How the formation and destruction of supercontinents influence the evolution of Earth's atmosphere, ocean and biosphere; Volcanic eruptions driving climate variability; Climate variability's effect on volcanic eruptions. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences |
Atmospheric Science, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Climate Risk Management, Alpine, Arctic and Antarctic, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response |
| Reinhard Jetter |
UBC Vancouver |
Molecular biology; Genes and enzymes; The cuticle: Waxy "skin" covering plant surfaces foring the interface between plants and their environment, the study of which will help better protect crop plants against adverse conditions such as drought, engineer novel chemical structures that are analogous to those on plant leaves to improve the surface properties of artificial materials (e.g., plant-like wax coatings can protect building materials against adverse climatic conditions). |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Botany; Department of Chemistry; Jetter Lab |
Biodiversity, Agriculture, Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Feng Jiang |
UBC Vancouver |
Green approaches in nanocellulose isolation, characterization, and modification; Energy storage applications of bio-based nanomaterials; Bio-based nanomaterials isolation. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Wood Science; Bioproducts Institute; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Sustainable Functional Biomaterials Lab |
Biofuels and Biomass, Forestry, Sustainable Materials and Composites |
| Zhichun Jing |
UBC Vancouver |
Archaeology of Shang civilization; Early urbanism; Culture contact; Environmental archaeology; Archaeology of collapse and sustainability; Archaic jades; Archaeological ceramics. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Anthropology |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Urban Planning and Cities |
| Kate Johnson |
UBC Vancouver |
Health outcomes research; Health economics; Simulation modeling; Chronic disease management; Asthma and COPD; Real-world evidence generation; Disease trajectory modeling; Comparative effectiveness evaluation; Air pollution impacts on respiratory disease burden; Climate mitigation strategies for health; Healthcare sustainability; Pharmacoeconomics; Healthcare interventions; Patient-centered outcomes; Personalized medicine; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Population health; Health services research; Medical decision making; Health policy evaluation. |
Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Division of Respiratory Medicine; Department of Medicine |
Health and Wellbeing, Climate Risk Management, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Policy and Governance, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Mark Johnson |
UBC Vancouver |
Hydrological cycle and reservoirs; Land and soil; Climate changes and impacts; Agriculture; Ecology and quality of the environment; Running water hydrosystem; Fresh water; Ground water and water tables; Ecohydrology; Carbon cycle; Land use; Water and sustainability; Biogeochemistry; Data science. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC); Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster |
Freshwater Systems, Water Resources and Supply, Carbon Cycle, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management |
| Melanie Jones |
UBC Okanagan |
Physiology of ectomycorrhizas and roots of woody plants; Effects of fire and silviculture on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities; Carbon allocation within and between woody plants; Orchard management under climate change. |
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science |
Department of Biology; Jones Research Lab; Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, And Ecosystems Services (BRAES) |
Forestry, Biodiversity, Carbon Management, Carbon Cycle, Agriculture, Wildfires and Forest Fires |
| Lee Jongho |
UBC Vancouver |
Environmental engineering; Environmental systems engineering; Water/wastewater treatment, Desalination; Resource harvesting; Nanoporous media; Electrokinetics. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Lee Research Group; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Water Resources and Supply, Waste and Waste Management, Sustainable Materials and Composites, Clean Energy and Energy Transitions |
| Andrew Jorgensen |
UBC Vancouver |
Human dimensions of global and regional environmental change, with a focus on the societal causes and consequences of the climate crisis; Political economy of development, inequality, and population health disparities. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Sociology; Climate & Society Lab; Centre for Climate Justice |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Climate Justice, Health and Wellbeing, Poverty, Pollution |
| Andrew Jorgenson |
UBC Vancouver |
Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions; Global political economy and world-systems analysis; Environmental sociology and human dimensions of environmental change; Societal drivers of carbon emissions and climate crisis; Militarization and military expenditures' environmental impacts; Economic inequality and carbon emissions; Foreign direct investment and environmental degradation; Ecologically unequal exchange; Economic development and environmental sustainability; Air pollution and public health; Industrial pollution and environmental justice; Global trade networks and carbon displacement; Renewable energy policy and decarbonization; Urban slums and environmental health; Deforestation. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Sociology; Climate & Society Lab; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, Centre for Climate Justice; Climate Solutions Collective |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis, Climate Justice, Policy and Governance, Carbon Management |
| Eduardo Jovel |
UBC Vancouver |
Indigenous plant knowledge; Mycology; Natural product chemistry; Aboriginal health; Organismal and chemical diversity and their intersection with human and environmental health; Indigenous peoples’ worldviews and their use of ecosystem resources to maintain health and wellness, particularly plants uses; Indigenous medicinal systems; Food security; Environmental health; Research ethics; Gender relations; Indigenous research methods. |
Faculty of Land and Food Systems |
Indigenous Research Partnerships (Centre for Indigenous Land-Based Education, Research and Wellness); Diversified Agroecosystem Cluster; Aboriginal Research Lab; Applied Biology Program; Centre for Sustainable Food Systems |
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Sovereign or Sustainable Food Systems, Agriculture, Health and Wellbeing, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Indigenous Ways of Knowing |
| Vinay Kamat |
UBC Vancouver |
Global health and emerging diseases; Marine conservation; Extractive industry; Political ecology; Indian primary health care, the resurgence of urban malaria, and the political economy of the outsourcing of pharmaceutical clinical trials; Tanzanian ethnographic research on the everyday lived experience of marginalized people caught in rapid social transformation engendered through neoliberal economic reforms. |
Faculty of Arts |
Department of Anthropology |
Health and Wellbeing, Natural Resource Management, Poverty, Policy and Governance, Weather and Climate Extremes, Oil and Gas |
| Milind Kandlikar |
UBC Vancouver |
Focus on the intersection of technology innovation, human development and the global environment; Cross-national comparisons of regulation of agricultural biotechnology; Air pollution and air quality in Indian cities; Risks and benefits of nanotechnology; New technologies for sustainable transportation; Development and climate change; Human development and global environment. |
Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Liu Institute for Global Issues; Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Pollution, Policy and Governance, Agriculture, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Bioprocesses and Biotechnology |
| Shahin Kassam |
UBC Okanagan |
Women's health; Intersectional environmentalism; Non-communicable disease; Forced migration; Environmental racism; Gender-based violence; Community-based evidence; Non-profit sector; Transdisciplinary partnerships. |
Faculty of Health and Social Development |
School of Nursing; Center for Migration; Women's Health Research Institute |
Climate Justice, Climate Risk Management, Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change, Health and Wellbeing, Poverty, Urban Planning and Cities, Weather and Climate Extremes |
| Denise Kenney |
UBC Okanagan |
Devised theatre; Physical theatre; Art and social practice; Eco-art; Performance art; Interventionist performance; Experimental and documentary digital media. |
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies |
Department of Creative Studies; Centre for Culture and Technology |
Social Dimensions of Climate and Systems Change |
| Paul Kershaw |
UBC Vancouver |
Generational fairness, particularly focusing on the impact of housing and taxation policies on different age groups; Policies that address the financial challenges faced by younger Canadians, emphasizing the need for intergenerational solidarity and a more equitable approach to housing and taxation. |
Faculty of Medicine |
School of Population and Public Health; Balanced Supply of Housing Research Cluster |
Health and Wellbeing, Climate Activism and Social Movements, Housing, Pollution, Policy and Governance |
| Park Keunhyun |
UBC Vancouver |
Using drones, sensors, and VR to understand how people use urban areas like parks and streets, aiming to improve design decisions; Sustainable communities: Compact, mixed-use communities to address issues like poor health and environmental damage caused by urban sprawl, focusing on how design affects people's lives; Green access for all: Equal access to urban nature, particularly for different socio-economic groups, with tools and policies for fair access to parks and green spaces. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Forest Resource Management; Urban Forests Research Hub; UNDER (Urban Nature DEsign Research) Lab |
Urban Planning and Cities, Forestry, Climate Justice, Transportation, Health and Wellbeing |
| Samia Khan |
UBC Vancouver |
Science education; Pedagogy; How people learn (k-16); Teacher education; Educational technology; Visualization; Classroom integration. |
Faculty of Education |
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability |
Climate Education and Environmental Literacy |
| Tarun Khanna |
UBC Vancouver |
Economics of the decarbonization of the energy sector and the policies that are needed to get there; Evidence synthesis; Policy evaluation; Electricity markets and energy in development. |
Faculty of Arts |
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; Decision Insights for Business & Society (DIBS) |
Electricity, Carbon Management, Policy and Governance, Agriculture, Economic Modeling and Data Analysis |
| Sina Kheirkhah |
UBC Okanagan |
Combustion; Turbulence; Laser-based diagnostics; Low/zero carbon fuels; Sprays; Gas turbine engines. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Mechanical); UBC Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) |
Clean Energy and Energy Transitions, Transportation, Carbon Management |
| Alyse Kiesser |
UBC Okanagan |
Systems ecology; Big data science; Microbial metabolic interactions; Natural and engineered microbial ecosystem; Multi-omics (DNA, RNA and protein sequencing). |
Faculty of Applied Science |
School of Engineering (Civil) |
Water Resources and Supply, Bioprocesses and Biotechnology, Oceans and Coastal Systems, Carbon Cycle |
| Amy Kim |
UBC Vancouver |
Transportation systems analysis; Multimodal networks; Transportation infrastructure planning; Adaptation; Long-distance transportation; Air transportation; Resource allocation and optimization; Multicriteria analysis and decision-making; Supply-and-demand models. |
Faculty of Applied Science |
Department of Civil Engineering; Disaster Resilience Research Network |
Transportation, Urban Planning and Cities, Wildfires and Forest Fires, Natural Hazards and Disaster Response |
| Kwang Ho Kim |
UBC Vancouver |
Developing sustainable biorefinery processes to maximize the conversion of biomass carbon into value-added products. |
Faculty of Forestry |
Department of Wood Science; Biorefinery and Biomass Conversion Lab |
Forestry, Biofuels and Biomass, Bioprocesses and Biotechnology |
| Kayla King |
UBC Vancouver |
Virulence evolution; Biodiversity loss and global climate change; Zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases; Protective microbiome; Social interactions; Sexual reproduction. |
Faculty of Science |
Department of Zoology |
Biodiversity, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Health and Wellbeing |